The wife of the second president of the United States and the mother of the sixth, Abigail Smith Adams is famous for her admonition to her husband to "remember the Ladies", and was a woman well ahead of her time. Essentially self-taught from her prestigious parents' expansive library, Abigail was an early proponent for women's education and rights as well as the abolition of slavery. This program will explore the fascinating, intelligent woman behind two U.S. presidents. This is a first-person reenactment event.

The Saratoga 250 Commission is using augmented reality and 3D animations of historic figures to help bring the “turning point” of the American Revolution to life. Upon downloading an app, cell phone users can “see” these animated characters standing in front of them via their phone’s camera. The characters then deliver first-person testimonies of their roles in the Battles of Saratoga, presenting history in an entertaining and technologically advanced fashion.

A resource website that includes the town's Revolutionary War history, including pension records, journals, and historic buildings.

A new exhibit that includes more than a dozen of the collection’s oldest and rarest artifacts, including a piece of cloth said to have been part of Ann Lee’s apron, who immigrated to the United States 250 years ago.

A statewide celebration to include interpretive signage placed around the state, a Christmas open house, and a children's discovery room

The students of Interlochen Arts Academy will have the ‘opportunity of a lifetime’ in 2026 when the high school’s orchestra will play with world-renowned musicians—including cellist Yo-Yo Ma—in celebration of America’s 250th birthday. The partnership, announced by Interlochen officials Wednesday, brings together student alumni and Ma on a new concerto by … jazz trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis. This will be played with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and conducted by Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Interlochen’s World Youth Symphony Orchestra Cristian Măcelaru.

The complete program will consist of 14 events (12 dramatic readings, one open house and one concert) and be called “The Road to 250: America’s Story.” Each reading will address a major theme in American history and feature a narrator who will tell the story with actors in costume who will depict key speakers and/or iconic events that illustrate the narrative.

The exhibit highlights the signers, the details and the history of America’s founding document, which is commemorated every year on Sept. 17, Constitution Day. Sign a replica of the Constitution, receive a free pocket Constitution, and take a selfie with James Madison, often called the Father of the Constitution.

More than 80 toppled and leaning headstones in South Cemetery have been reset and more than 200 have been cleaned by the nonprofit organization’s members in advance of 250th anniversary in 2026 of the founding of the United States of America.

Live actors will perform short vignettes that explore the First Continental Congress through the lens of delegates, their families, and everyday folk of the period.

Nine exhibits will be hosted at four locations, including Delaware and Lehigh National Corridor, Historic Bethlehem, NorCo Historical and Genealogical Society and Lafayette College's Williams Center for the Arts. They will include new research with previously untold stories that include more than the usual tales about founding fathers who visited the county. They will also include the narratives of "real and everyday people," including the indigenous and enslaved.

A dramatic, thematic performance when colonial thinkers John Adams and Mercy Otis Warren offer a stirring and enlightening discussion about the evolution of democratic thought and how such thinking set the stage for the American Revolution.